The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-11

are giant young cities contendiug with Pitts
burg and with Birmingham, in England, for the
iron crown There is not only coal enough for
all their blazing furnaces and domestic uses.
but enough for a continent and for coming cen
turies. On the South, Southwest and Southeast
quarters of that boundary are semi-tropical
regions, salts and seaports, and lnlitleSS beds
OF phoSphates for the enrichment of the
whole. Within it marble of every shade
and variety, enough to build palace on every
hill. There are states enough itO cover all its
habitations, and lead enough to defend them.
There is bread enough to feed many times its
population, cotton enough to clothe them,
water power enough for all manufacturing and
gold enough for currency, While above it all.
benignant Providence lends the balmiest of
skies, and with health giving breezes drives
from its borders pestilental diseases. have
singled out the scene Immediately around this
beautiful city in order to fix your attention upon
the capabilities of a part, that you may more
readily calculate the possibilities of the whole.
MR.. RANDALL'S SPEECH.
After introducing Mr.. Randall that gen
man said:
Plato's beautiful description of the far-famed
Atlanta may be aptly applied to the State of
Georgia, We behold the extent and fertility of
the land, with its lofty mountains, its temperate
climate, its mineral wealth, its unmeasured
possibilities. Labor and the intelligence of the
st2tesmaRship of Georgia, it matters not for us
to inq urf why or wherefore, long slumbered in
the midst of this great wealth and knew it not.
5od,s But soon there came tn time when 3 the
instructed by the example and success
of Others impressed by industrial am
bition, started out upon a career which
has already cheered and gladdened this com
monweath from one end of it to the other. The
mountains yield up their hidden treasures, the
fields furnish abundant haryests, the rivers no
longer run idly by but turn the wheels of busy
industry, and comfort and plenty, morality and
good order settle down upon this fair land
like a benedicton No wonder, then, that
witness the erection of these splendid palaces
nf tba trim his
of labor-saving machines and the choicest
products of farm mine and factory. They are
true and sure signs of the progress and pros
perity of the people. They are the outcome
from the masses and not the gift of a select
few, and the lesson they teach needs to be
learned in these happier days by those who
would keep abreast of modern progress They
are not only the occasion of innocent and lauda-
BILE feStivity and rejoicing for what has already
been accomplished, but they serve to stimulate
the intelligence, capital and labor OF the com
munity to greater advance and more effective
results.
From this point Mr. Randall proceeded
to give a resume of the statistics of the past
nine months, showing wonderful progress, ,ex-
emplified by the fact that while the increase
in values in the Union last year was 40 per
cent that in the South was 120. After
dealing with these statistics for sometime
he arrived at the discovery, that while the
manufactured products necessary for the
general use of the people had decreased in
price. tie wages of labor had largely in
creased. From this discovery he proceeded
to the conclusion following:
The search after truth has exposed the fall
lacies of science as well as falsehood jim history
1t has for example, been declared with dog
matte energy and persistence that under certain
conditions of duties on imports the prices of
food and clothing would be higher, while the
bSe9 been d demonsrated mons rated by the investigation @ ton
to which l have alluded that in the
years since 1860 the reverse has been actually
proven to be the fact, by whatever standard
tested, and the prices of food and clothing have
been reduced, the wages of labor increased, and
the profits of capital lessened; while, despite
those whose theories, predictions and selfish
interests have contemplated the failure and dis
comffture of the people in developing their
individual resources, the people nevertheless
have risen superior to all adverse Influences and
achieved complete, and L believe, lasting vic
tory.
At 3:47 o'clock Mr. Randall concluded
speaking, touched a button, the signal was
given to Gen. Young, the batteries opened
to the music of booming cannon and the ma
chinery of the exposition started.
SOME OF THE SPORTS.
The bicycle race was won by Homer Reed,
of Atlanta.
The first horse race was a half mile dash
and occurred at o'clock. There were five
entries. Red Jim. owned by j. A. Bland,
CdIne ouG Wlllilef, WItn Lazy harper SecoIlu
At $50 o'clock a balloon ascension oc-
Cured. Prof Carl Myers, in a balloon %
feet in diameter, carrying 1000 cubic feet
Of gas, shot upward from the grounds. The
balloon went up almost as straight as an
arrow for half mile and then struck a
current of air, which bore it southwark.
1t continued to rise until it was mile high,
and as it moved farther and frrther away
it was lost to sight in the gathering dark
ness.
The balloon landed safely tonight about
six miles from the city.
Governor and Mrs. Gordon extended a
public reception tonight at the mansion in
honor of Mr.. Randall and wife. and large
number paid their respects. During the
evening there was fine display of fire
works in front of the mansion.